Iosevka is so great. Not everyone likes the narrow look. I’ve tried other fonts a couple of times since I stumbled on it a good handfuls of years ago, but I always come back.
Not OP, but if you look at the Hello World code example, the “HelloWorld” class is visually divided at the l’s and the o and W are glued together. Looks more like “Hel l oWorld”.
If it works for you, that’s fine. You are right with the monospaced font being limited to the boxes. Jetbrains mono uses ligatures to overcome certain spacing limits. On top of this some characters are designed to connect better to their surroundings, as the „l“ mentioned, which is not just a stroke, but connects to the neighboring characters with the top and bottom strokes.
For me personally, it’s Victor Mono and Iosevka. Victor Mono for desktop and Iosevka for VSCodium.
Iosevka is so great. Not everyone likes the narrow look. I’ve tried other fonts a couple of times since I stumbled on it a good handfuls of years ago, but I always come back.
You can always compile your own Iosevka and adjust several pieces, I have done that selecting what I consider the best pieces a long time ago.
The compiled font lives in an easy to access internal webserver that I just grab from every computer I use (=
I like both of those, but my terminal and coding are always in MPlus Code
Nice! That font really looked nice through the smartphone. Will try it out in VSCodium when I can. Thanks!
I love a good condensed font:
https://www.programmingfonts.org/#mplus
It doesn’t support ligatures though.
Thanks for the link 🙂
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Just looked at the screenshot on the Victor Mono page and the kerning makes me want to rip my eyes out…
Why? 😄
Not OP, but if you look at the Hello World code example, the “HelloWorld” class is visually divided at the l’s and the o and W are glued together. Looks more like “Hel l oWorld”.
That’s because Victor Mono are a tabular font meaning equal width no matter what character it is :) I find it nice.
No, that is not a valid reason to look that bad, JetBrains Mono is a fixed with font and it manages to get the characters evenly distributed.
If it works for you, that’s fine. You are right with the monospaced font being limited to the boxes. Jetbrains mono uses ligatures to overcome certain spacing limits. On top of this some characters are designed to connect better to their surroundings, as the „l“ mentioned, which is not just a stroke, but connects to the neighboring characters with the top and bottom strokes.